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Soviet means excellent
What does it sound?
Where?
Well, do you hear? Of the speakers above the bar, is it tra-la?
Brigitte Bardot, it seems. Only the accompaniment is some kind of strange.
No, this is not a bardo, it sings in Russian ... Ah, I know this song, such an old one, I even have a record from the magazine "Drust", flexible - the singer Maria Pakhomenko was called. Only she was cut, this song, do you hear? Only one line was left - “it shakes, shakes, shakes”, then it was about lanterns above his head, and now he “walks, walks, walks”. The guy walked there, along the pavement. And then there is no guy, instead of him, synthesizers are screaming.
Speaks. And something croaks. What is it croaking there?
The solo plate of Oleg Kostrov from the group "Knife for Frau Müller" croaks. The duet from St. Petersburg - two Oleg, Kostrov and Gitarkin - made so much noise this year that it is just right to talk about new stars. This music likes Bjork, it sounds on the radio, squeals in advertising and in the program about football, the guys are called on MTV, records are published in Germany and Japan. Two awkward musicians with forever gloomy faces reached the bottom of the Soviet stage and pulled out a discreet of musical SOR, what the listeners forgot to think about: all these radio settings, “Performances at the microphone”, funny songs and melodies from animals; Barrier orchestral cantatas, cinemas, cheerful electric boots and bashful twist. From nonsense, from strange songs, words, cries and phrases, a twitching, proud music, bad in the best sense of the word came out. There is a song of cartoon weeds, superimposed on a grunting computer rhythm; a ballad of a vibrophone from some half-forgotten masterpiece for children; VIA “Flame” copper pipes, the sound of the Soviet Polovkis System Synthesizer and the voice of either Maria Pakhomenko, or Irma Sohadze (which, remember, tweeted “Type -top, stomps the baby“ with a charming Georgian accent) - the plays “Knives” are most reminiscent of the unforgettable paintings of Theophan Mukhin from the Golden Teenx, the same portraits from the land Wheat and poppy, bold sketches with corn and nuclear, landscapes made of rice and ups of millet. "
The nuclear disco Kostrova -gutarchine invariably likes everyone and everyone - here they recall the affectionate and delicate animals of childhood, and their favorite blue cup, and going to the cinema with the whole class. And someone, by the way, will recall both his first horror film and a monstrous carlick-broadcast from the epic “through the thorns to the stars”, and the mumbled head of Professor Dowell, crazy in the music of “knives”, is enough and enough with an excess. "Ce la Dance, Protuberan", as once sang in the song of David Tukhmanov.
The extravagant St. Petersburg duet achieved its own thanks to Oleg Nesterov, the leader of the Megapolis ensemble and the head of the recording company Snegiri-music-this year Nesterov unexpectedly opened the “lungs”, aimed just to the release of exceptionally “easy music”. It was his efforts to fashion on Easy Listening, in the words of the Maximum radio, the main event of this summer (along with the European Football Championship). The first releases were “Dreams of the Third Variety” and the new record of the Moscow already team “Spring on Karl Yukhan Street” - “Love and Poverty”. "Spring", adored by critics, writes the most pleasant, pleasant music in all respects, focusing at once on the English ensemble Gentle People and Soviet love lyrics - the soloist sings with intonations Renata Litvinova, and the songs would perfectly suit Helena Velikanova. Hyperromanic of white heat, exaggerated as much as possible.
“Spring” and “knives” are the main adherents of the fashion trend so far, but the dashing is the trouble: the light winter has just been released by thirteen performers, and the set is the most diverse: the Dutch team “Sputnik”, consisting of our former compatriots, Izhevsk “Burunduklik Quartet” (from one of the best compositions on the disk), two, two Funny pensioner named "DJs of Circumores", who came from where Oleg's violin from "Vydoplyasov’s crustacean", Evgeny Fedorov from "Tekedjazz", and many more. For the first time, it would be enough, and one Kostrov with Gitarkin, because these St. Petersburg junkers are distinguished by some kind of manic performance: once grabbing a successful technique, they will not calm down until they cut all the achievements of our pop hostility on the salad. The "lungs" have already released the solo record of Oleg Kostrov "Ivonna" - the soundtrack for the performance of the Novosibirsk Drama Theater "Red Torch", for which Andrei Bartenev made costumes. Gitarkin has his own project "Messerchups", very crazy, where frantic sampling and dancing on the Suscs of the State Film Fund acquires some desperate character: a fast, wild electronic surf for cooked synephils is obtained. Only this year two records of Miss Libido 2000 and the Bride of the atom were published, and the release of the third has already been announced, the Vamp Babies, in which Oleg actively uses samples from the Trans-Media "Orthods of the Dead".
It is not difficult to predict the further success of the Nashensky Easy Listening: in terms of movie music, lyrical songs and light dancing, the Country of Soviets can surpass anyone. Artemyev and Tariverdiev, Tukhmanov and Pakhmutov - these archives are truly inexhaustible, and most of the finds are still ahead. A real discovery may be the upcoming reprint of the "light" music, once recorded by the orchestra of electric music instruments of the P/U Vyacheslav Meshcheryina. This team, armed with electrician and electric ballalaists, was formed already in 1956, existed for thirty years and recorded an unthinkable amount of music - to cartoons, documentaries and science fiction productions. Everyone who at least once whistled peppy melodies from "well, wait (their work) under his nose, understands: Soviet means excellent.